Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture
by
Diana Walsh Pasulka
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
After purgatory was officially defined by the Catholic Church in the thirteenth century, its location became a topic of heated debate and philosophical speculation: Was purgatory located on the earth, or within it? Were its fires real or figurative? Diana Walsh Pasulka offers a groundbreaking historical...